Those Your Old Droog-Nas Comparisons Won’t Stop With “Free Turkey”

Whether he is or isn’t Nas is probably tabled for the time being. Until both Young Old Droog are photographed together or, better yet, videotaped rhyming together, most people are still going to assume Droog is nothing more than Nas playing multiple roles like Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor.

What matters most is the music itself and Droog making good by harnessing the attention sent his way by dropping first his free EP and now a new track, “Free Turkey.” He plays off a beat that sounds so close to “One Love” that it won’t do anything to lessen comparisons and bigging up The Jerky Boys as “all you young motherf***ers that’s the era you missed” won’t help either.

But his rhymes? “My flow’s water, yours is milk, that’s why we skim through it” and “Bitch was so wet, she made a soup in my Lexus” Slick enough to make one think that Nas could’ve written them. But if it isn’t Nasir, then Droog may be that one emcee ready to handle whatever crowns and titles God’s Son has amassed over the years.

Could be Nas with the pitch down… but I’m hearing some inflections Nas would never use. Plus the personality seems too different. Might be tripping. There’s just too many times throughout where I’m like nah that’s not him. Regardless, dope song. Nice flip of the sample.

Every couple of years there’s new guys that come out that sound like older respected dudes. ‘Member Guerilla Black? They said he sounded like Big. ‘Member Yung Wun? They said he sounded like Pac. ‘Member Byrd Gang member NOE? They said he sounded like Jay. One thing they all have in common, none of them lasted.

That “bitch so wet she made soup in my Lexus” should’ve ended with the word coupe or lex coupe right? But I’ve long retired my pen so what do I know.
I’d like to think its nas, it’s more fun that way. Seriously when does a rapper come out and not want to be seen ever by anyone ever.

On one hand, I think dude sounds almost exactly like Nasir at various points in his career.

Then again, in this day and age, you can make anyone sound like anyone. I remember when I was POSITIVE that Captain Murphy was Tyler, the Creator- and before he outted himself as FlyLo, there were some pretty in depth conspiracy theories (the craziest of which goes through “Between Friends” second by second to prove that it’s actually a combination of Tyler, Earl, ScHoolboy, Domo and Hodgy at various points!).

I still think it’s Nas, just because Nas is a king at drumming up publicity for his new albums since HHID.

I was in the U.K. a long time ago. There was this guy everyone said I had to hear. I had no idea why. Walked into an old bar after trying to catch him for 3 weeks… you would have sworn Michael Jackson was singing. This guy sounded EXACTLY like MJ – so much so that I could not sign him. I have his demo somewhere.

It is not common but it happens every once in a while that an artist sounds VERY similar (in some cases almost identical) to another. In this guy’s case, he sang Michael’s songs his entire life. Michael was his influence and idol. His voice happened to sound the same (as close as I have ever heard in my life – no one else has come close). And of course, all of the little nuances came about from singing like him.

His whole rhyme structure is 90s. I’ve never really listened to Nas, but I could see it being him. Especially with how someone pointed out the recycled verse on “We Dem Boyz” remix. Maybe all his thraxx verses are released as Droog. Unless he does shows with something impeding you from identifying him a la MF DOOM, we’ll know pretty soon.